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Congratulations to Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book THE WOUND AND THE STITCH has been named the winner of the 2026 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Book of the Year Award in the early career category!
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book THE WOUND AND THE STITCH has been named the winner of the 2026 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Book of the Year Award in the early career category!
Tomorrow! Join Miguel Caballero, author of THE MONUMENT OF TOMORROW, for a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania.
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Tomorrow! Join Miguel Caballero, author of THE MONUMENT OF TOMORROW, for a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book THE WOUND AND THE STITCH has been named the winner of the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award in the monograph category!
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book THE WOUND AND THE STITCH has been named the winner of the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award in the monograph category!
Tomorrow! Join LIES OF THE LAND author Camille Serchuk for a free online event through Bodleian Libraries. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca?dm_i=7QRX,2HKZO,378X0K,5A9SU,1,0,0,0
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
Join our Bodleian Map Team and contributors for a series of talks on cartography
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February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Tomorrow! Join LIES OF THE LAND author Camille Serchuk for a free online event through Bodleian Libraries. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca?dm_i=7QRX,2HKZO,378X0K,5A9SU,1,0,0,0
Polina Dimova, author of AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE SENSES, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! https://newbooksnetwork.com/at-the-crossroads-of-the-senses
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Polina Dimova, author of AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE SENSES, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! https://newbooksnetwork.com/at-the-crossroads-of-the-senses
Free through 2/28 from ECUMENICA, Ambre Dromgoole and Ahmad Greene-Hayes discuss "Sinners" and offer a critical reading of the film, highlighting its intricate synergy with Black politics, Black religion, Africana diasporic spiritualities, music, and expressive cultures. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Free through 2/28 from ECUMENICA, Ambre Dromgoole and Ahmad Greene-Hayes discuss "Sinners" and offer a critical reading of the film, highlighting its intricate synergy with Black politics, Black religion, Africana diasporic spiritualities, music, and expressive cultures. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
We're hiring! Currently seeking a Production Assistant. https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/job/Penn-State-University-Park/Production-Assistant--Penn-State-University-Press_REQ_0000074669-2
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February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
We're hiring! Currently seeking a Production Assistant. https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/job/Penn-State-University-Park/Production-Assistant--Penn-State-University-Press_REQ_0000074669-2
Congratulations to Brigitte Buettner, whose book THE MINERAL AND THE VISUAL has been named the winner of the 2026 Karen Gould Prize in Art History! https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-publication-prizes/
MAA 2026 Publication Prizes
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes: The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the W…
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February 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Congratulations to Brigitte Buettner, whose book THE MINERAL AND THE VISUAL has been named the winner of the 2026 Karen Gould Prize in Art History! https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-2026-publication-prizes/
Monday! Join John Bidwell, author of THE DECLARATION IN SCRIPT AND PRINT, for a lecture as part of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts. The lecture will be held at 5:15pm in the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/events/
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Monday! Join John Bidwell, author of THE DECLARATION IN SCRIPT AND PRINT, for a lecture as part of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts. The lecture will be held at 5:15pm in the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/events/
Discover groundbreaking new research and essential scholarship in African American and Africana studies through our Black History Month sale! Enter code BHM26 at checkout to save 30–60%. Sale ends 3/1. Offer available on US orders only. https://bit.ly/4bBcmKw
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Discover groundbreaking new research and essential scholarship in African American and Africana studies through our Black History Month sale! Enter code BHM26 at checkout to save 30–60%. Sale ends 3/1. Offer available on US orders only. https://bit.ly/4bBcmKw
Free read through 2/28 from THE LANGSTON HUGHES REVIEW: A look at how Hughes and Shange’s poetry both archives the oppression of the Jim Crow era and resists it—and enables us to understand the impact they had on transforming the image of Black Americans. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Free read through 2/28 from THE LANGSTON HUGHES REVIEW: A look at how Hughes and Shange’s poetry both archives the oppression of the Jim Crow era and resists it—and enables us to understand the impact they had on transforming the image of Black Americans. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
In honor of Black History Month, we have put together a list of free reads! Including both free journal articles and open-access books in African American and Africana studies, our Black History Month Free-to-Read Collection will be available through the end of February. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
In honor of Black History Month, we have put together a list of free reads! Including both free journal articles and open-access books in African American and Africana studies, our Black History Month Free-to-Read Collection will be available through the end of February. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk
Saundra Weddle, author of THE BROTHEL AND BEYOND, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMKzYZcfGk
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Saundra Weddle, author of THE BROTHEL AND BEYOND, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMKzYZcfGk
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Happy marmot bothering day!
Some mistakenly hold the idea that Germans are staid and humorless, but they can get up to some very serious nonsense when they feel so inclined, hence today's rodent rousting festivities. @psupress.bsky.social #Booksky
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Some mistakenly hold the idea that Germans are staid and humorless, but they can get up to some very serious nonsense when they feel so inclined, hence today's rodent rousting festivities. @psupress.bsky.social #Booksky
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Serious Nonsense
Each time the second day of February comes around, I am reminded of a question that first entered my mind many years ago, "Just what in the name of John James Audubon does whether or not a particular ...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Happy marmot bothering day!
Some mistakenly hold the idea that Germans are staid and humorless, but they can get up to some very serious nonsense when they feel so inclined, hence today's rodent rousting festivities. @psupress.bsky.social #Booksky
www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2016/02/seri...
Some mistakenly hold the idea that Germans are staid and humorless, but they can get up to some very serious nonsense when they feel so inclined, hence today's rodent rousting festivities. @psupress.bsky.social #Booksky
www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2016/02/seri...
Congratulations to Ekaterina V. Haskins, whose book REMEMBERING THE WAR, FORGETTING THE TERROR was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09713-8.html
Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin's Russia By Ekaterina V. Haskins
Russian state propaganda has framed the invasion of Ukraine as a liberation mission by invoking the Soviet-era myth of the Great Patriotic War (1941–45), in which the Soviet people, led by Russia, saved the world from the greatest evil of the twentieth century. At the same time, the Russian government has banned civil society institutions and initiatives that remind the country of the legacy of Soviet political violence.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Ekaterina V. Haskins, whose book REMEMBERING THE WAR, FORGETTING THE TERROR was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09713-8.html
Congratulations to Asa Simon Mittman, whose book CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09746-6.html
Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England By Asa Simon Mittman
From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to displace.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Congratulations to Asa Simon Mittman, whose book CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09746-6.html
Congratulations to James Grantham Turner, whose article "Milton, Lucretius, and the 'Womb of Nature’" from Milton Studies 66.1 has been awarded the James Holly Hanford Article Award from Milton Society of America!
The full article is free to read through 2/21. https://ow.ly/C8ZT50Y0W5g
The full article is free to read through 2/21. https://ow.ly/C8ZT50Y0W5g
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Congratulations to James Grantham Turner, whose article "Milton, Lucretius, and the 'Womb of Nature’" from Milton Studies 66.1 has been awarded the James Holly Hanford Article Award from Milton Society of America!
The full article is free to read through 2/21. https://ow.ly/C8ZT50Y0W5g
The full article is free to read through 2/21. https://ow.ly/C8ZT50Y0W5g
Penn State University Press is pleased to welcome the newest additions to our Sales and Marketing Department! Read the full announcement here: https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/penn-state-university-press-welcomes-additions-sales-and-marketing
Penn State University Press welcomes additions to sales and marketing department | Penn State University
Penn State University Press welcomes Abby Naqvi and Katie Luu as the newest members of its Sales and Marketing Department.
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January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Penn State University Press is pleased to welcome the newest additions to our Sales and Marketing Department! Read the full announcement here: https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/penn-state-university-press-welcomes-additions-sales-and-marketing
The winter issue of our newsletter is here! Read on for new books, reviews, journals news, and more: buff.ly/qfeAd9B
January 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The winter issue of our newsletter is here! Read on for new books, reviews, journals news, and more: buff.ly/qfeAd9B
❄️The PSU Press offices will be closed for winter break through January 2nd. We'll see you in 2024!❄️
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
❄️The PSU Press offices will be closed for winter break through January 2nd. We'll see you in 2024!❄️
Steven Litt said that MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL by Samantha Baskind was one of his best reads of 2025!
A Year in Reading with Steven Litt
We asked Rabkin Prize winners and members of our writing community to share their best reads in 2025.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Steven Litt said that MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL by Samantha Baskind was one of his best reads of 2025!
Mayu Fujikawa, author of ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here:
Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Mayu Fujikawa, author of ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here:
Journal of Information Policy (JIP) is celebrating its 15th anniversary! JIP Editor Krishna Jayakar speaks with the Bellisario College of Communications to reflect on the journal's past, and plan for years ahead.
At 15, Journal of Information Policy grows and adapts in changing times | Penn State University
Penn State’s Journal of Information Policy is celebrating 15 years as a leading source of research for policymakers and scholars, while continuing to adapt to a fast-changing digital landscape.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Journal of Information Policy (JIP) is celebrating its 15th anniversary! JIP Editor Krishna Jayakar speaks with the Bellisario College of Communications to reflect on the journal's past, and plan for years ahead.
Last chance! The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!
Carrie at 50
Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Last chance! The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!
Tomorrow! Join William E. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, for a book talk at After 8 Books. Find more information here:
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December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Tomorrow! Join William E. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, for a book talk at After 8 Books. Find more information here: